442 BULLETIN 45, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



piceous. Flagellum scarcely twice the length of the scape; pedicel 

 long, stouter than fill licle; first fuiiiclar joint twice as long as thick; 

 the following all monilifonn, the two or three Joints preceding the club 

 a little transverse; the club consists of one enorinously enlarged joint, 

 fuscous. Abdomen ovate, polished black, the petiole 1.} times as long 

 as thick, yellowish, densely woolly, the wool beneath extending on to 

 the base of the second ventral segme. ^. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Type ill Coll. Ashmead. 



Monelata hirticollis Ashni. 

 Can. Ent., xx, ]>. 54. 



$ . Length, l.l"". Differs from tht; species just described in being 

 slightly larger, Mith the antenuie dark rufous, the club black, the legs 

 yellow or reddish -yellow; while the collar, metapleura, and petiole are 

 black and densely woolly. 



Habitat. — Ottawa, Canada. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



The species was described from a specimen received from Mr. W. 

 Hague Harrington. 



BASALTS Westwood. 



Phil. Mag., 1833, p. 343. 



(Type />'. fiimipennis w'estw.) 



Head subglobose, the occiput margined, the clypeus entirely sepa- 

 rated, the cheeks woolly; ocelli 3, close together in a triangle; eyes 

 rounded. 



Antennae inserted on a frontal prominence, in 9 13-jointed, either 

 moniliform, clavate or gradually incrassated toward tips, the scape 

 very long, reaching far beyond the ocelli; in S 14-jointed, filiform, 

 the pedicel usually smaller than the first flagellar joint, the first flagel- 

 lar joint not more than half the length of the second, the second the 

 longest joint and always excised outwardly at base and dilated at apex, 

 the following joints, except the last, always shorter than the second. 



Maxillary palpi short, 5-jointed, the third ami fourth joints small, 

 equal, the last elongate, pilose. 



Mandibles bifid at tips. 



Thorax ovoid, the collar woolly at sides; mesonotum without fur- 

 rows (except sometimes indications of them posteriorly in the 9 ), but 

 prominently elevated in the middle anteriorly; scutellum with a pro- 

 found fovea at base or with 2 confluent fovea' ; metathorax emarginated, 

 with acute angles and a prominent acute median ridge above. 



Wings in S large, broiid, pubescent; the submarginal vein attains the 

 costa at about one-third the length of the wing or a little beyond; the 

 costal cell closed ; marginal vein short, triangular, usually with a 



